ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -’The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ is a poem by the poet and critic T S Eliot, and a key document of literary modernism. It was first published in Poetry magazine in June 1915, and later collected in Eliot’s first book, Prufrock and other Observations (1917).

Detailed explanation-2: -’The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock’ is a poem by the poet and critic T S Eliot, and a key document of literary modernism. It was first published in Poetry magazine in June 1915, and later collected in Eliot’s first book, Prufrock and other Observations (1917).

Detailed explanation-3: -It is an examination of the tortured psyche of the prototypical modern man-overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. Prufrock, the poem’s speaker, seems to be addressing a potential lover, with whom he would like to “force the moment to its crisis” by somehow consummating their relationship.

Detailed explanation-4: -The original title of this poem wasn’t “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” It was – ready for this? – “Prufrock Among the Women.” We’re glad Eliot changed his mind about this original title, which sounds like a terrible 1950’s musical.